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Tuesday 21 August 2012

How can the pot call the kettle black?

They say people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones! 

Facebook, as expected, is brimming with eulogies... Eulogies to Dom Mintoff, in which people have claimed ALL the Maltese should be grieving as he's the one that made Malta a decent country to live in. 

Well, that "ALL" is too big a word. Many would cherish not to take part in that 'all'. 

But hey, many just won't accept it. It's inconceivable, right? Well, that's all bollocks! It's politics. You've your take and others have theirs. Dead or alive, people will always say stuff about you.

Not being very much the norm here, some people are simply appalled by Daphne's latest blogpost. 

She's happy the man died. She said he was a bastard. Now quite apart from the fact that in reality she speaks on behalf of many; Quite apart from the fact that she's the guts to say what others have silently admitted deep down... Well, that's all besides the point. It's her blog. 

Everybody, surely - OK, maybe Jason Micallef didn't know since he isn't yet aware of the fact that she's a journalist - knew Daphne would rejoice. 

Why did people have to rush to see what she would say? They are now in a bit of a funny hissy mood, throwing tantrums all over the place... They say it's crass to speak like that. They have totally forgotten their hero is dead; it's all about what Daphne said now. 

Meanwhile, however, in their comments they add their wishes, such as the following:


Call her 'hateful', that's all right. But you shouldn't be doing the same thing, should you? It sort of beats
the purpose...

As a certain Adrian Cachia puts it: "They dragged Gaddafi in the streets, they hanged Mussolini. They rejoiced when Saddam died. They rejoiced when Tito died... It's normal for people to rejoice when someone they hate dies. What is new?"

14 comments:

  1. Doesn't she deserve such things? She is such a lousy woman that all the disease should go to her.

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  2. You say that people are free not to read her blog. And yet, you are throwing a fit over how people are posting comments decrying what she said in a language that matches her own.

    In the same way that those decrying her comments enjoy the freedom to not read her blog, you also enjoy the freedom to not read the comments of those decrying her blog.

    Pot calling the kettle black indeed.

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    1. Throwing a fit? You clearly got the wrong end of the stick there. What's ironic is that they throw tantrums because they claim that such language should never be used, yet they do the same thing the very second after. There's a bit of a non sequitur there.

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  3. p.s. if daphne is a journalist, then a street sweeper qualifies as an interior decorator, or a child with a crayon is Van Gogh.

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  4. Have the laborites totally forgotten the days they called him "TRAITOR"? Have they now? Or do they pretend to? How farcical all this is.

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  5. Among the reasons they are insulting her is because she has no respect for the dead. We're all humans and we're all destined to eventually die so when DCG dies, so with their same reasoning, they too will rejoice and they too have no respect for the dead if they do so. The world is filled with historical figures that are still offended worldwide i.e. Hitler, Rasputin, Saddam etc. Why are the Maltese so surprised about Mintoff? And by the way, Mintoff is dead. As if he cares now that DCG is insulting or praising him. Apart from that, one of those who commented on her blog called her a lesbian. What does lesbianism has to do with all of this? Totally irrelevant.

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  6. People call her a witch and curse her, hoping that she falls ill with cancer. Dear, isn't that ironic? Calling her a witch and cursing her? Maybe these people are just jealous that they don't have magic powers, as they claim that DCG does. Poor Muggles!

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  7. If you didn't live in his time you can't really know if he's really good or not, so no one can judge him apart from old ones. How can you judge people you didn't live with in the same time?

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  8. Daphni mara hadra u ma ghandiex tithalla tikteb iktar. Gonzi jrid iwaqqafa u daqshekk ghax issa vera dejqek lil kullhadd

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  9. At least you speak about her, so she achieved her goal. Good PR or bad PR; it is still PR!

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  10. Taking the defence of dcg shows the deepens of this blog!! hahaha

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  11. A valuable lesson. Thanks. Now go do some research and check who gave you some of your fundamental rights and basic services you are entitled to nowadays. Hint it wasn't D.C.G.

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